I’m in a bit of a mess here. I installed PostgreSQL on my Vista computer a couple of days ago but then when asked to enter the password for the postgre user account I couldn’t remember it (allegedly I was asked during setup but I don’t remember that).
Anyway, so I uninstalled Pg with the intention of reinstalling it, removed the user account, it’s /Users/ directory and it’s special privelleges (‘Advanced user profile properties’) but when I come to install Pg it seems to think the account still exists as when I supply a password during setup it says that it is not the correct password – meaning that the account still exists somewhere.
Is there anyway I can recover this?
Go to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management. There under ‘Local Users and Groups’ you can see all users created for your system. Remove ‘postgres’ and reinstall PostgreSQL.